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At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top London based Partner operating in the Software space. If you think a Partner is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Anu Suthakaran
Technology Solution Professional – Enterprise Partner Group of Microsoft
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About Microsoft, Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Simon Murdoch
Managing Partner of Episode 1
Simon set up online bookstore Bookpages in 1996 and sold it to Amazon in 1998. As VP Europe for Amazon, he managed huge growth from start-up through to multimillion turnover and hundreds of staff. As an Angel investor, he has invested in Shazam, been chairman of VideoIsland (now merged with and renamed LoveFilm, and purchased in Feb 2011 by Amazon.com), Zoopla! and Shutl (currently chairman). Simon founded and funded FriendsAbroad.com, a social network for developing language skills and contacts abroad which was successfully sold to Lesson Nine GmbH, operators of language learning site Babbel.com. Simon is currently CEO of StormForward, an e-commerce conversion consultancy which helpsonline retailers to increase their online sales and profits.
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About Episode 1, StormForward: Episode1 Ventures is a venture capital fund set up to invest in early-stage technology companies based in London, UK.
Paul McNabb
Venture Partner of Episode 1
Paul has had a highly successful career in high tech as both a senior executive and an entrepreneur. Most recently, he served as the Chief Strategy Officer for Cisco Services, a $12bn division of Cisco, where he led the global strategy and acquisitions team. Previously he had run a series of global businesses for Cisco. As an entrepreneur he founded and exited two businesses in the US, one an innovative consulting firm sold to Cambridge Technology Partners, and the second a B2B Social Network for CIOs sold to Earthweb. His early background was in consulting, working for Accenture and other major international consulting firms, including his own. He has worked in venture capital in the US, and has broad experience in many B2B technologies. He has also worked globally, living in Shanghai, New York, San Francisco and multiple European Countries. With a passion for strategy and marketing, and an extensive network of contacts and experience to draw on, Paul enjoys nothing better than working with entrepreneurs to tease out the goals and priorities they need to operationalize their vision.
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About Episode 1, Opteran: Episode1 Ventures is a venture capital fund set up to invest in early-stage technology companies based in London, UK.
Adrian Lloyd
Partner of Episode 1
Adrian Lloyd is a Partner at Episode 1, an early stage Venture Capital fund focusing on software enabled businesses with the beginnings of customer traction. Adrian has had a career as a management consultant and entrepreneur, with a gap at Stanford Business School in 2008-10 where he earned his MBA. He focuses on customer-centric product and business design as an investor and you can read more of his thoughts at http://www.episode1.com/news-and-blog/blog Adrian has been investing in software businesses since 2008.
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About Episode 1: Episode1 Ventures is a venture capital fund set up to invest in early-stage technology companies based in London, UK.
Damien Lane
Co-Founder & Partner of Episode 1
Damien Lane has spent the last 20 years investing in private companies, both in Private Equity where he was a partner with Electra Partners, then at Octopus Ventures where he was a senior member of the investment team. Having made a number of angel investments, Damien co-founded Episode 1 with Simon and Adrian in 2012. While at Episode 1, Damien has led investments in Carwow, Scurri, Touch Surgery, Attest and Zipcube and loves working with early stage teams of entrepreneurs; helping them develop their early stage startup into a fast growth enterprises capable of raising more funding from later stage investors. When he is not trying to help businesses to implement an optimal approach to growth, Damien can mostly be found running around Hampstead Heath or the Coastal paths of Great Britain. Having trained obsessively to run a 2:52 Marathon in 2015, he is now trying to dip below 2:50, in the spirit of continuous improvement. Damien has an MBA from Cambridge University and a Masters degree in PE from Oxford University.
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About Adludio, Episode 1, Scurri: Episode1 Ventures is a venture capital fund set up to invest in early-stage technology companies based in London, UK.
Sahil Rekhi
Vice President Global Strategic Partnerships of RingCentral
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About RingCentral: RingCentral, a global distributor of cloud-unified communications and collaboration solutions, offers its users with technology services.
Kristin Waeterloos
Head of Partner Eco-System of Privitar
As Head of Partner Eco-System, Kristin is responsible for the development and management of global and local partnerships to support Privitar’s growth strategy. A major focus is on joint go-to-market with consultancies, platform providers and complementary software vendors. Kristin has over 25 years experience in the Financial Services Technology sector, including SAP Financial Services, Sopra Group and Finastra, where she held senior management and business development positions and has built up a successful track record in Alliance and Channel management over the last 7 years. She has an extensive network of executive relations across global and European consultancies and technology players.
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About Privitar: Privitar offers a data privacy platform that protect their customers’ sensitive personal data and to deliver comprehensive data privacy.
Sabih Ali
Head of Strategic Partnerships Development of MarketFinance
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About MarketFinance: MarketFinance is a FinTech company providing business finance solutions that help companies grow.
Mark Beeston
Founder & Managing Partner of Illuminate Financial
Mark Beeston founded Illuminate after a 25+ year career in capital markets where he had been both the consumer of capital markets technologies as well as the entrepreneur, operator, and funder of capital markets businesses. Prior to founding Illuminate, Mark was the CEO for the Post Trade Risk and Information business at ICAP (now Nex) where he oversaw the creation of ICAP’s own investment subsidiary. Prior to ICAP Mark launched T-Zero (now ICELink) during his time at Creditex before the company was acquired by ICE in 2008. He started his career with 13 years at Deutsche Bank in derivatives trading and management, including periods as COO for both the Global Rates and Global Credit businesses. Mark has an undergraduate degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Mark was listed on the Institutional Investor Fintech Finance 35 and top 40 Lists, Financial News Fintech 40 Power List, Institutional Investor Trade Technology Top 30 and Top 40 Lists, and Derivatives Intelligence/Derivatives Week Rising Stars.
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About Illuminate Financial: Illuminate Financial is a venture capital firm backing companies that solve problems in financial services.
Alexander Ross
Partner of Illuminate Financial
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About Illuminate Financial: Illuminate Financial is a venture capital firm backing companies that solve problems in financial services.
Mark Whitcroft
Partner of Illuminate Financial
Mark Whitcroft is one of the Founding Partners at Illuminate Financial. He is also part of the Advisory Panel for IA Engine, the UK’s Investment Association fintech accelerator. Prior to Illuminate, he was an EIR at StartUpBootCamp FinTech London, on the Industry Advisory Board of ValueStream Labs and part of the Deutsche Bank team involved in the Accenture FinTech Innovation Lab in New York. Mark spent twelve years in various fixed income capital market roles at Deutsche Bank and HSBC based in New York, Singapore, Hong Kong and London. He has been an early stage fintech investor since 2010 and sits on the Boards of a number of portfolio companies. Mark has a BSc in Human Sciences from University College London and is Harvard Business School alumni via the Program for Leadership Development.
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About Illuminate Financial: Illuminate Financial is a venture capital firm backing companies that solve problems in financial services.
Rezso Szabo
Partner of Illuminate Financial
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About Illuminate Financial: Illuminate Financial is a venture capital firm backing companies that solve problems in financial services.
Denis Shafranik
Partner & Co-Founder of Concentric
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About Concentric, ERMAK Group, Supremum Capital: Concentric invests in software technology business in the financial services, mobility, real estate, industrial, and logistics sectors.
Kjartan Rist
Founding Partner of Concentric
Kjartan has spent the last 20 years working in the technology sector as a founder, advisor, board member, and investor. As a Founding Partner of Concentric, the London & Copenhagen-based venture capital firm, he works with early-stage tech businesses (Seed+ through Series B) to support their development and accelerate growth. Current investments include Airsorted, Huckletree, PayAsUGym, Pockit, Public.io, Digital Risks, Frontier Car Group, Insly, Memory.ai, Duedil, Coindirect etc. Concentric take a hands-on, founder focused approach to start-up investment and is passionate about strengthening the profile of the European Venture Capital sector. Prior to Concentric, Kjartan co-founded the venture fund DN Capital and the merchant bank Korral Partners, and have been instrumental in 70+ transactions. Kjartan graduated from the University of Bath and with an MBA from Imperial College London.
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About Concentric: Concentric invests in software technology business in the financial services, mobility, real estate, industrial, and logistics sectors.
Jos White
General Partner of Notion Capital
Jos is an entrepreneur turned investor. He is currently a Partner at Notion Capital. Notion Capital is based in London and focuses on B2B SaaS/Cloud Services in the European market. Notion portfolio Companies that Jos has invested in include Avrios, CurrencyCloud, Idio, FiveAI, Futrli, Mews, Shutl (sold to eBay), Topia, Trustev (sold to Transunion). Prior to Notion, Jos co-founded three businesses – RBR Networks (sold to Datatec for $60m), Star (sold to Claranet for $88m) and MessageLabs (sold to Symantec for $700m). MessageLabs was one of the first and also, at the time of its sale, one of the largest software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies in the world and a trailblazer for the overall market. Jos is a well-known entrepreneur and investor in the UK and the US. He has spoken at numerous industry events including The Entrepreneurs Summit and the LBS Entrepreneurs Speaker Series and appeared on both TV and radio including BBC, CNBC, NBC, Sky and ITV. Jos received a BA honours degree in English Literature from London University and divides his time between New York and London.
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About Justworks, Notion Capital: Notion is an early-stage venture fund that focuses on technology and cloud computing markets.
Stephen Chandler
Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Notion Capital
Stephen Chandler is Co-founder and Managing Partner at Notion Capital. An entrepreneur, investor and company builder, with 20 years experience in forming, funding, running, advising and investing in technology businesses, he has been a co-founder of over ten businesses with involvement in dozens more, where he helped a number of leading tech companies develop and execute winning market strategies. He has primary responsibility for the external fundraising activities of the firm and is active in deal origination in SaaS, FinTech and eCommerce enablement in the UK and Nordic region. He is / was the Notion Capital representative on the boards of Tradeshift, Mojn, Selfnet and Star.
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About Notion Capital, SeedCloud: Notion is an early-stage venture fund that focuses on technology and cloud computing markets.
Patrick Norris
Partner of Notion Capital
Patrick is a Vice President at Notion; he joined the firm in July 2013. Patrick focuses on deal origination, evaluation and execution as well as fundraising, portfolio company development and cloud metrics benchmarking. Patrick is a Board Observer at Duedil, Mojn, DemystData and IOCS. Patrick is a three-time founder of businesses in the online, media and retail sectors and was also VP of Corporate Strategy at Curve Securities, joining shortly after inception of the business in 2009 to achieve rapid growth in funds on deposit, revenues and customers. Curve is now a business with over $3.5bn of client’s funds on deposit. Immediately prior to joining Notion, Patrick worked in a private equity advisory business sourcing and evaluating transaction opportunities for growth equity funds focussed on the TMT sector in Europe. Patrick began his career at Morgan Stanley in London in 2005. He spent over four years working across both the Investment Banking Division and Fixed Income Capital Markets, with a specific focus on structuring innovative capital management solutions for large corporates and financial institutions. During the financial crisis, Patrick was heavily involved in the European government bail-outs of financial institutions. Patrick holds an MSc in Finance and Investment from Edinburgh University and a BSc (Hons) in International Management and German from Manchester Business School and the University of Economics in Vienna.
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About Notion Capital: Notion is an early-stage venture fund that focuses on technology and cloud computing markets.
Itxaso del Palacio
Partner of Notion Capital
Itxaso del Palacio is a Partner at Notion, a leading European B2B SaaS focused VC which has invested in companies such as GoCardless, CurrencyCloud, TradeShift and Unbabel among others. Prior to that, she Itxaso was the Investment Partner for M12 (formerly Microsoft Ventures) in Europe. Some of the most recent investments led by Itxaso include Mya Systems (conversational AI for recruiting), ForestAdmin (admin panel framework), Yulife (new life insurance provider), Onfido (identity verification platform), Unbabel (Machine Translation solution) and Beamery (CRM of recruitment). On the academic side, Itxaso is a Senior Teaching Fellow in Entrepreneurship at UCL School of Management. For the past nine years, Itxaso has taught entrepreneurship at UCL, Imperial College and the Royal College of Arts in London. She is passionate about helping entrepreneurs at universities building their businesses. Itxaso holds a prestigious Kauffman Fellowship and is very well connected to the global network of fellow investors. By background, Itxaso is an engineer and has a PhD in entrepreneurship and venture capital.
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About Notion Capital, University College London (UCL): Notion is an early-stage venture fund that focuses on technology and cloud computing markets.
Rob Barr
Partnerships & Growth of Recharge
Rob Barr leads the agency partnership program at ReCharge, a recurring billing company for Shopify. In his role, he initiates and leads partnership deals with Shopify’s leading sites and Plus partners in the U.S., U.K., Australia and other regions. Prior to joining ReCharge, Rob was a sales engineer at Synthesio focused on driving sales to Fortune 500 companies in the EMEA. He holds a bachelors degree in Politics from Sheffield University.
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About Recharge: Recharge offers subscription management software for e-commerce businesses.
Nigel Clark
SVP Partners and Industries of Hedera Hashgraph
Nigel Clark is a proven technology executive, having been a global Senior Vice President in two cloud software companies sold for a combined value of $1bn. He joins Hedera to lead the organization’s Industry & Partner go-to-market. Previously Nigel was with Oracle where he led the creation and go-to-market of cross industry solutions anchored in Blockchain, IoT and AI. Prior to Oracle, Nigel was with Accenture Digital (Mobility) where he led sales & consulting for the Austria, Switzerland, Germany mobility business as well heading the Products Industry mobility sales go-to-market across Europe, Africa and Latin America (EALA). Before Accenture, Nigel spent 9 years as SVP Worldwide Business Development at ClickSoftware. During his tenure, Nigel secured tier 1 resell contracts and cross industry sales through major enterprise software vendors such as SAP, IBM and Infor as well as establishing global delivery practices with Accenture and other Systems Integrators. Nigel earned his MA(Hons) Management from St Andrews University, Scotland and the Ecole Supérieure des Affaires, Grenoble, France.
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About Hedera Hashgraph: Hedera Hashgraph is a public distributed ledger for building decentralized applications.
Jon Carter
UK Innovation Scouting Lead, , Group Partnering & Devices of Deutsche Telekom
Jon leads Business Development for Deutsche Telekom’s white label and open connected home platform, with a specific focus on the UK market. Successfully launched in Germany in late 2013, Deutsche Telekom’s open platform is now available internationally, with a principle focus on Europe. Deutsche Telekom’s platform has been designed to move the industry beyond simple control of connected devices, to create a foundation for new revenue generating services. In the UK, Jon’s focus is on establishing partnerships with telcos, utilities, insurers and retailers, as well as third party platform providers and OEMs to enable the realization of innovative new models and revenue generating services. Jon has worked in and around the connected home space since the early 2000s, and has a deep knowledge of the UK and European market, and in particular what will finally drive growth in this market. He has previously consulted for both E.ON Group and RWE UK on their connected home strategies, including the latter’s partnership with Google’s Nest. Prior to joining Deutsche Telekom, Jon worked several years for a boutique innovation consultancy, and before that was 12 years at Orange, where amongst other things he led Orange UK’s R&D initiative on the connected home, as well as being Head of Strategy and subsequently Head of Propositions.
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About Deutsche Telekom: Deutsche Telekom is a telecommunications company that offers a range of fixed-network services.
Alex Barton
Developer Partnerships of Facebook AI
Alex Barton is the Developer Partnerships of Facebook.
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About Facebook AI, Mush: Facebook AI offers technology and engineering services like theory, algorithms, applications, software and hardware infrastructure.
Jonathan Gane
Business Development and Partnerships of ABAKA Holdings
Jonathan Gane, Business Development & Partnerships Director, was previously Managing Director at TP ICAP Institutional Services division covering strategy, acquisitions and origination. Prior to this he was CEO and co-CIO of the fund of hedge funds, Fort Rock Asset Management, investing in quantitatively driven hedge funds that included systematic trading, AI and machine learning strategies. He spent 15 years with Societe Generale in London and New York where he was Managing Director, Global Head of Origination & Structuring for the Newedge Alternatives division covering hedge funds and institutional investors.
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About ABAKA Holdings: ABAKA is the Enterprise platform powered by Artificial Intelligence enabling institutions to build digital retirement solutions
Edd Stockwell
Head of Partnerships of MEL Science
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About MEL Science: MEL Science develops up to date chemistry kit subscription and VR software for learning chemistry
Stephen King
Partner of Omidyar Network
As a partner at Omidyar Network, Stephen brings exceptional experience in applying media and technology to create positive social impact. Stephen leads the global Governance & Citizen Engagement initiative and a portfolio that includes a broad range of national and global organizations. Many are innovators in the use of technology to help make governments more responsive and aid citizens in holding their governments to account. The portfolio includes: Sunlight Foundation, Global Voices, Fundación Ciudadano Inteligente, mySociety, New Citizen, Janaagraha and Ushahidi, among others. Prior to Omidyar Network, Stephen served as the chief executive of BBC Media Action, where he led a period of sustained growth that included building programs in more than 40 countries in the developing world. Stephen helped establish the organization’s international reputation as one of the largest and most successful organizations using media and communications to improve the lives of the world’s poor and promote better governance and transparency worldwide. Prior to the BBC, Stephen held executive positions at several non-profit organizations based in the United Kingdom and the developing world. Stephen is based in London and is a board member of Ushahidi, Global Voices, and mySociety. He holds an MA in Oriental and African studies from the University of London.
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About Omidyar Network: Omidyar Network is an investment firm.
Indraneel Mitra
Client Partner of Cognizant
Indraneel Mitra is a Senior Solutions Architect & Technology Evangelist at Cognizant with over 12 years of experience and supporting consulting engagements for various Fortune 500 customers. He is also a technology enthusiast who explores various cloud and IoT frameworks.
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About Cognizant: Cognizant is a professional services company, transforming clients’ business, operating and technology models for the digital era.
Carles Ferrer
General Partner of Nauta Capital
Carles Ferrer Roqueta is a General Partner at Nauta Capital and is based in London. Carles has extensive Venture Capital experience, having raised, managed and exited different VC funds since 2000. Carles’ areas of interest include Security, SaaS, Marketing/Social Analytics/Intelligence and Critical data-driven companies. Carles has recently led deals at the following companies: Brandwatch (Social media intelligence); Scytl (Secure Electronic Voting), iJento (predictive analytics), Kinamik, CloudIQ (AI powered optimisation conversion engine), Mishipay (mobile self-checkout solutions), ChannelSight (Buy now technologies), Agnitio (Voice Biometrics), Abiquo (Cloud Management), GetApp (Workspace for SaaS applications), BeMyEye (crowdsource market research data analytics),Smarp (Internal content hub), Basekit (Saas web builder for SMEs), and Mercaux (in-store retail transformation platform). His previous experience includes also management positions in corporate strategy and planning/finance divisions with blue chip companies in the telecommunications, defence/SW/auto spaces and financial services, such as TRW (acquired by Northrop Grumman), Auna Group/Retevision (acquired by France Telecom and ONO) and Ernst & Young. Carles holds a Business Administration degree from Universitat de Barcelona, Graduate Programme in Administration and Management from Harvard University and an MBA from SDA Bocconi (Milan, Italy).
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About Nauta Capital: Nauta Capital is a pan-European Venture Capital firm investing in early stage technology companies.
Pratima Aiyagari
Venture Partner of Nauta Capital
Pratima is a Venture Partner at Nauta Capital and is based in London. At Nauta, Pratima focuses on enterprise software and deep tech domains. Pratima has 18+ years of professional experience. She is a software developer by background and spent several years in Silicon Valley working on developing intelligent network services in the network management domain. Pratima joins Nauta from US-based cybersecurity-focused investment firm Paladin Capital. Previously, Pratima led investments and acquisitions at Cisco Corporate Development in Europe with a specific focus on ML/AI, Enterprise Collaboration and Silicon. During her investment career, Pratima led an investment or held board seats in Aimotive, Adbrain, Evrythng, Secure Code Warrior, decentriq, Dashbird, and several fund investments. She also managed investments in several companies including Behaviosec, Italtel, ip.access, and Corvil. Pratima received her MBA from INSEAD in France and an MS in computer science from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in the US. Pratima is a co-author of a US patent in the area of network device clusters and high availability.
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About Cisco, Nauta Capital: Nauta Capital is a pan-European Venture Capital firm investing in early stage technology companies.
Tom Singell
Partnerships Manager of Showpad
Tom Singell is the Partnerships Manager at Showpad.
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About Showpad: The best thing to ever happen to your sales team
Ekaterina Almasque
General Partner of OpenOcean
Ekaterina (Katya) Almasque is a Venture Partner at OpenOcean and she leads the London Team and Operations. Before joining OpenOcean, Katya was a Managing Director of the Samsung Catalyst Fund in Europe, Samsung’s Electronics $500M venture capital multistage investment fund focused on core technology areas including robotics, autonomous driving, artificial intelligence, digital health, data infrastructure and device level technologies. She led investments across Europe in leading companies such as GraphCore, Mapillary, AIMotive, Sentiance and Quobyte, as well as several venture funds. For over ten years prior to that, Katya was part of several corporate and independent venture capital funds in Silicon Valley and Europe, including EMC and Siemens Venture Capital. Additionally she was a founding partner of a global private equity advisory firm specializing in high-tech growth companies with $1B+ markets in the technology and environmental sectors, where she led investments in the US, Brazil, and Europe.
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About Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), OpenOcean, Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center: OpenOcean is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in B2B software across Europe.
Rupesh Chatwani
Venture Partner of RLC Ventures
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About RLC Ventures: RLC Ventures is an award-winning VC which continues to back founders building global tech companies, from idea to exit.
Anna Lowe
Director of Partnerships & Co-Founder of SMARTIFY
Anna is CoFounder and Director of Partnerships at Smartify a global platform for art described by the New Scientist as “the Shazam and Spotify of art”. A firm believer that culture needs stewardship not disruption, Anna works closely with museums to embrace new technologies that support their growth and resilience. Anna is a Trustee of Tate, the youngest ever trustee of a national museum. Anna also sits on the UK5G Creative Industries working group and is an Industry Champion for the Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre (PEC).
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About SMARTIFY, Tate: SMARTIFY provides instant access to inspiring art commentary, straight to your smartphone.
Leila-Mari Ryynänen
Partner of Claned Group
Leila-Mari has over 30 years of experience in management and business development both in the public and private sector. She has extensive experience with start-ups from start to exit, and was the director of new business development at Finpro from 2006 to 2013. Leila-Mari has successfully ran a healthcare software company in UK and contract business in Norway. Leila-Mari is used to working in international markets, and she has lived and worked in all the Scandinavian countries, the UK, the Netherlands, Canada and USA. Additionally, she has experience in Asian and Russian business.
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About Claned Group: The unparalleled digital learning solution – Modern LXP enabling superior engagement and measurement of impact
Majid Daia
VP, Partnerships of Paystone
Vice President of Partnerships Paystone
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About Paystone, Paystone: Paystone is a provider of customer engagement services and electronic payment processing solutions for businesses of all sizes.
Ryan Collins Thomas
Head of Strategic Partnerships of Shoprocket
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About Shoprocket: Sell from your existing website, social media and more, in minutes
Sebastian Ribbentrop
Managing Partner of Join Capital
Sebastian Ribbentrop has over 22 years of experience in private equity, real estate and venture capital. He founded WunderHouse in 2015 a specialist investor and operator in the hospitality sector providing flexible community-enhancing co-living opportunities for young professionals and students. Most recently he was the Director of platforms Nido Student Housing and DB Deutschland Property Partners. Nido Student Housing Ltd was the largest student residential direct-let platform in London. Previously, Sebastian spent 11 years in Private Equity in London and Frankfurt. His last position was Managing Director of West LB’s €3bn venture capital & private equity practice in London where he chaired the Investment Committee for global direct and indirect investments. Prior to his position at WestLB, he focused on private equity & venture capital in Europe and was a principal at Steadfast Capital from 2001 to 2007 and Schroders from 1995 to 2001.
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About Join Capital: Join Capital is a Berlin-based early stage venture capital firm investing in enterprise technology and industry 4.0 startups.
Mark Loader
Director of Product Management, Marketing & Partnerships of ITRS Group
Mark joined ITRS in June 2012 as Managing Director Asia and brings more than 20 years of international experience in the field of fintech and data. Mark is responsible for all of ITRS’ product, marketing and partnership strategy covering both Geneos and Insights & Valo. He’s regularly on the road evangelizing our business and platform strategy with customers, partners and colleagues. Prior to joining ITRS, he was Global Head of Quantitative Analytics and Datafeeds at Thomson Reuters with general management responsibility for over US$230 million in annual revenue from more than 1500 clients globally, spanning traditional asset managers, sell-side research, hedge funds and proprietary trading desks.
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About ITRS Group: ITRS Group is the leading provider of risk mitigation solutions to global financial institutions.
Craig Netterfield
Managing Partner of Columbia Lake Partners
CLP’s Founding Partner. Over 13 years’ venture lending experience in North America and Europe. Previously Partner at Wellington Financial. Bachelor of Mathematics from the University of Waterloo and MBA from the Ivey School of Business.
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About Columbia Lake Partners: Columbia Lake Partners is an experienced team of investors providing growth loans to European technology companies.
Xavier Llerena
Senior Director DSP Partnerships of FreeWheel
Xavier Llerena is Sr Director DSP Partnerships at [FreeWheel](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/freewheel#/entity), a provider of comprehensive ad platforms for publishers, advertisers, and media buyers. Powered by premium video content, robust data, and advanced technology, the company is revolutionizing the way publishers and marketers transact across all screens, data types, and sales channels. Xavier holds a master’s degree a from Imperial College London as well as a master’s degree from Universität Mozarteum Salzburg.
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About FreeWheel: FreeWheel provides enterprise level solutions to enable the premium video industry to thrive in an increasingly complex ecosystem.
Mark Pearson
Managing Partner of Fuel Ventures
Mark is an award winning digital entrepreneur having achieved multiple successful exits over the last decade. Mark takes an active role in mentoring the Fund’s portfolio of companies.
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About Fuel Ventures, Groupola.com, HushHush, MyVoucherCodes.co.uk, MyVoucherCodes.co.uk: Fuel Ventures is a technology fund investing in marketplaces, fintech, platforms, and SaaS companies.
Matt Cowey
Head Of Partnerships of spaceOS
Matt Cowey is the Head Of Partnerships at spaceOS. He is also the Commercial Manager at Flooring International UK.
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About spaceOS: SpaceOS is the most beautiful and easy to use tenant experience and management software on the market.
Andrea Mainardi
Board Member and EMEA Strategic Partnership Manager of Sensoria
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About : Sensoria designs, develops, and produces body-sensing wearable devices.
Andrea Mainardi
Board Member and EMEA Strategic Partnership Manager of Sensoria
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About : Sensoria designs, develops, and produces body-sensing wearable devices.
Alex Deane
Senior Managing Director (Partner) Strategic Communications, Head of Public Affairs UK of FTI Consulting
Alex Deane is a Senior Managing Director (Partner) Strategic Communications, Head of Public Affairs UK at FTI Consulting.
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About FTI Consulting: FTI Consulting is a global business advisory firm.
David Champeaux
Affiliate Partner, Global Cognitive Health Solutions of IPsoft
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About Cherish Health, IPsoft: IPsoft automates IT and business processes for enterprises across a wide range of industries.
Simon Douglas
Head of Global System Integrator Consulting Partners of Ciena
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About Ciena, Unchainedhouse.com: Ciena collaborates with customers to unlock the strategic potential of their networks and and change the way they perform and compete.
Ali Beklen
Founder and Managing Partner of HotelRunner
After working for several financial institutions and IBM, Ali Beklen co-founded HotelRunner with Arden Agopyan, with the ambition of converting the long-tail accommodation sales and distribution management from offline to online at global scale. For the last 10 years, he has been advising many organizations and initiatives focusing on digital transformation of the travel industry globally. He has publications in international refereed journals and conferences about service and cloud computing. He is Advisory Chair for Software Service Computation at the International Academy, Research and Industry Association. Beklen holds an M.Sc. in Computer Engineering and a B.A. in Economics. He is also a PhD candidate in computer engineering.
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About HotelRunner: SaaS enabled B2B network for accommodations and travel agencies to find, contract, connect, and transact with each other online.
Arden Agopyan
Founder and Managing Partner of HotelRunner
Arden Agopyan is an experienced entrepreneur and business development executive with a proven track record. Prior to founding HotelRunner, he led IBM’s Cloud Computing Software technical sales and market creation activities across Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, Middle East and Africa. His areas of expertise also include international team management, business execution, strategic marketing and financial management. As a talented hacker coming from software development background, along twenty years of business experience in technology, Arden is a Ph.D. candidate in Finance, holds a BSc in Computer Engineering degree and an MBA. Arden speaks five languages and is also Advisory Chair for Cloud Computing at International Academy, Research and Industry Association and co-author of a book, academic journals and articles.
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About HotelRunner: SaaS enabled B2B network for accommodations and travel agencies to find, contract, connect, and transact with each other online.
Lucia Mastromauro
Vice President, Global Head of Client Partnerships of Adform
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About Adform: Making display advertising simple, relevant, rewarding for advertisers, agencies and publishers
Vincent Bonnet
Chief Commercial Officer, SVP, International Sales & Strategic Partnership of Octo Telematics
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About Octo Telematics: Octo Telematics researches, develops, and manages telematics applications and systems for the insurance and automotive markets.
Lorenzo Magni
International Partnerships Director of Pollinate
Lorenzo Magni is the International Partnerships Director at Pollinate International.
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About Pollinate: Pollinate Networks is a platform that works with banks to create data-driven experiences for merchants and consumers.
Dimitrie Sandu
Partner Solutions Architect & WAN Specialist of Meraki
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About Meraki: Meraki provides Cisco-based, cloud-controlled Wi-Fi and routing and security products for distributed wired and wireless networks.
Timo Litty
Co-Founder & Partner of Grove House Ratings
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About Grove House Ratings: Provider of quantitative due diligence software solutions to investors and intermediaries in Venture Capital markets
Severin Zörgiebel
Co-Founder & Partner of Grove House Ratings
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About Grove House Ratings: Provider of quantitative due diligence software solutions to investors and intermediaries in Venture Capital markets
Chris Rauch
Co-Founder & Partner of Grove House Ratings
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About Grove House Ratings: Provider of quantitative due diligence software solutions to investors and intermediaries in Venture Capital markets
Chris Rauch
Co-Founder & Partner of Grove House Ratings
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About Grove House Ratings: Provider of quantitative due diligence software solutions to investors and intermediaries in Venture Capital markets
Talal Cheaib
Partner / Operations Director of Slidr
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About Slidr: SLIDR is a dynamic pricing technology allowing customers to buy products/services at prices always lower than retail
James Edward Vardy
Founding Partner of Turn Partners
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About Turn Partners: Turn Partners is a startup studio focusing on the acquisition, turnaround, and creation of fast growth small and medium online companies.
Pavel Dolezal
Partner of Keboola
Pavel has been building companies since 1999, starting with the largest portal network, CEE, under the group name Atlas Portal. After the group was sold, he built Ataxo, one of the EU’s largest digital agencies in the performing media space. Ataxo serviced 15,000 customers and had almost 200 agents in Customer Support. In addition, Pavel actively invests in early-stage tech companies in the EU, Brazil and the USA. In 2014, Pavel became a partner at Keboola.com and is responsible for its international expansion and business development, currently focusing on UK and Singapore operations.
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About Keboola: Keboola is a cloud platform helping clients combine, enhance & publish crucial information for internal analytics & data products.
Dr Rana Ghosh-Roy
IBM Partner, Business Analytics of illumr
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About : illumr helps organizations to better understand and predict patterns of behavior that affect them.
Marco Knaap
Strategic Partnerships of Cassini Systems
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About Cassini Systems: Cassini Systems is a new financial technology company.
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Managing Partner of Red LeeMor LLC
Tony Morris brings strategy, mobile, sales, and PR experience to the digital industry. He received his start in PR/marketing and media at the Federal Reserve Bank, serving as the Los Angeles media spokesperson supporting the release of the new $100 bills. Tony holds a B.A. from Yale University. He lives in Los Angeles. His specialties include Digital Media, Online Video, Mobile Advertising, Mobile UX/UI Design, Social Media, Brand Strategy: CPG, Gaming, Entertainment, Travel; Contract Negotiation, Direct Response, Advertising Sales; Presentations and Public Speaking; Business Development; Marketing.
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About Red LeeMor LLC: Red LeeMor LLC is a technology platform of mobile applications geared toward contractors and architects.
Rachel Priest
Client Partner of The App Business
Rachel is a Connective Growth Partner at TAB (apart of the Kin + Carta group). She began her career in marketing, but shifted to Technology when the mobile opportunity started to gain momentum – In the early days, she helped clients to see the potential of mobile through smaller tactical projects and now collaborates with the world’s biggest organisations on digital programmes driven by a careful balance of technology, UX and business strategy. Rachel is passionate about the topic of diversity and co-founded the Gender Diversity taskforce at TAB, spearheading a strategy that has helped elevate the diversity agenda across the business.
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About The App Business: The App Business operates as a mobile consultancy.
Rachel Priest
Client Partner of The App Business
Rachel is a Connective Growth Partner at TAB (apart of the Kin + Carta group). She began her career in marketing, but shifted to Technology when the mobile opportunity started to gain momentum – In the early days, she helped clients to see the potential of mobile through smaller tactical projects and now collaborates with the world’s biggest organisations on digital programmes driven by a careful balance of technology, UX and business strategy. Rachel is passionate about the topic of diversity and co-founded the Gender Diversity taskforce at TAB, spearheading a strategy that has helped elevate the diversity agenda across the business.
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About The App Business: The App Business operates as a mobile consultancy.
Michillay Brown
Partner Relations of Tracr
Michillay Brown is a partner relations at Tracr.
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About Tracr: Tracr is an Internet of Value (IoV) platform built to establish a baseline of trust in the diamond industry.
Jermaine Trotman
Managing Partner of Nimble AppGenie
Jermaine Trotman is a Founder of Nimble Appgenie, a company that provides mobile app development services in iOS and Android platforms for global clients. He loves to write on mobile technologies, app development, startups, entrepreneurship, and mobile app marketing.
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About Nimble AppGenie: Nimble AppGenie is leading Mobile App development company in the USA. Also, we provides you highly customized, cost-efficient apps.
James Baldwin
CEO, Founder & Partner of Unai
James Baldwin was the managing director at ERN.
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About Unai: Software Development and Data Science
Alistair Langer
Marketing & Partnerships of Maanch
Alistair is currently involved with many different projects, organisations and individuals, supporting them to reduce complexity and find clear solutions. His clients include Carissa Bub, founder and CEO of Bubworks and the not for profit MAANCH, a platform which matches donors with charities. He previously worked for Forum Nachhaltig Wirtschaften, the first b2b magazine on sustainability in German speaking countries.
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About Maanch: Platform
Alistair Langer
Marketing & Partnerships of Maanch
Alistair is currently involved with many different projects, organisations and individuals, supporting them to reduce complexity and find clear solutions. His clients include Carissa Bub, founder and CEO of Bubworks and the not for profit MAANCH, a platform which matches donors with charities. He previously worked for Forum Nachhaltig Wirtschaften, the first b2b magazine on sustainability in German speaking countries.
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About Maanch: Platform
Guendalina Cobianchi
Business Development & Partnerships of V-Nova
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About V-Nova: Next-generation video and image compression that works today
Ranzie Anthony
Partner – Executive Creative Director of Athlon
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About Athlon: Athlon helps global brands create products and services that build meaningful human connections and drive business success.
Matthew Hunter
Partner Marketing Manager of Demand Metric
Prior to Demand Metric, Matt was instrumental in the growth of two analyst firms, Info-Tech Research Group and HR Downloads managing member acquisition and retention. On weekends you can find Matt flooding his family ice rink or on the links golfing with his parents.
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About Demand Metric: Agile project management software built for Marketers powered by 1,000+ practical tools & resources.
Roheel Ahmad
Managing Partner of Forsyth Barnes
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About Forsyth Barnes: Executive Search & Senior Interim Specialists within Fintech, Software & Etail industries.
Elodie Draperi
Partnerships Director of GiveVision
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About GiveVision: GiveVision is a high tech low vision aids enhancing the remaining sight of partially sighted people.
John Welbourn
Director of Partnerships of Gnatta
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About Gnatta: Gnatta allows businesses of all sizes to listen and engage with their customers on an individual basis via one single interface.
George Metcalfe
Co-Founder, Business Operations and Partnerships of Nightingale Software
George worked at ARK Globe Academy, before leading a consulting team for the London Borough of Hounslow on social policy. He recently worked in Innovation at New Philanthropy Capital, a charity based think tank, where he worked on their young people’s focussed tech for good initiative, My Best Life.
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About Nightingale Software, Tranquiliti: Nightingale is an innovative analytical software for the early identification of mental health and wellbeing concerns in schools.
John Shannon
Partner Director of Tiger
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About Tiger: Tiger delivers workplace performance analytics that transforms how enterprises work, collaborate, and perform.
Sassan Danesh
Managing Partner of Etrading Software
Sassan Danesh has extensive experience assisting capital markets institutions to grow their OTC market franchise by optimising the business performance of their technology offerings. Sassan’s recent focus is on the role of technology and standards in addressing industry-wide issues. He is passionate about the benefits of industry collaboration and the use of open standards to provide technology solutions that optimise inefficiencies in market structure.
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About Etrading Software: Etrading Software founded in 2005 with the goal of bringing efficiency and stability to the burgeoning electronic trading markets.
Philip Sheldrake
Managing Partner of Euler Partners
Philip is a founding partner of Meanwhile, the venture marketers.
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About Euler Partners, Meanwhile, techUK, The hi:project: Euler Partners provides performance management services to help businesses work more efficiently and effectively.
Philip Sheldrake
Managing Partner of Euler Partners
Philip is a founding partner of Meanwhile, the venture marketers.
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About Euler Partners, Meanwhile, techUK, The hi:project: Euler Partners provides performance management services to help businesses work more efficiently and effectively.
Terry Corby
Associate Partner of Headforwards
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About Headforwards: Headforwards is a Cornish outsource software development company.
Michael Kightley
Partner and Data Scientist of Inflexion Analytics
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About Inflexion Analytics: A team of Data Analytics experts whose purpose is to help more firms to benefit from advanced analytics
Michael Kightley
Partner and Data Scientist of Inflexion Analytics
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About Inflexion Analytics: A team of Data Analytics experts whose purpose is to help more firms to benefit from advanced analytics
Sarah Lewthwaite
Strategic Partnerships Director – EMEA of Movio
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About Movio: Movio is the global leader in marketing data analytics and campaign management software.
